The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and offers both originality and interpretive insight. This second volume surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. Comprised of twenty-one chapters, it focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegger, Adorno and Arendt, surveys major schools of thought including Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Conservatism, and discusses critical movements such as Postcolonialism, , Structuralism, and Post-structuralism. Renouncing a single 'master narrative' of European thought across the period, Peter E. Gordon and Warren Breckman establish a formidable new multi-faceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age.
- Presents an authoritative survey of twentieth-century intellectual history written by leading scholars in the field
- Organized in roughly chronological fashion to provide an accessible introduction to European intellectual history
- Balances coverage of the classic themes of European intellectual history with explorations of European and non-European figures and movements
Reviews & endorsements
'This is simply an incredible resource: essay after essay, written by leading intellectual historians that provide concise, lucid and engaging introductions to the main currents of European thought over the past two centuries. Everyone from students to seasoned scholars will want copies of these books on their shelves.' David A. Bell, Lapidus Professor, Princeton University
'In these well-nigh encyclopedic volumes, Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon engage in a daunting feat. They offer compact and informative introductions to essays on very many crucial dimensions of thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. And they furnish, along with their own substantive chapters, contributions from an array of prominent scholars of intellectual and cultural history, all of whom demonstrate impressive expertise in their varied areas of inquiry. The result is an important work of both scholarly and general interest.' Dominick LaCapra, Professor Emeritus of History and Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University
Product details
January 2022Paperback
9781107483804
596 pages
227 × 154 × 26 mm
0.97kg
1 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Sociology and the heroism of modern life Martin Jay
- 2. Psychoanalysis: Freud and beyond Katja Guenther
- 3. Modern physics: from crisis to crisis Jimena Canales
- 4. Varieties of phenomenology Dan Zahavi
- 5. Existentialism and the meanings of transcendence Edward Baring
- 6. Philosophies of life Giuseppe Bianco
- 7. The many faces of analytical philosophy Joel Isaac
- 8. American ideas in the European imagination James T. Kloppenberg and Sam Klug
- 9. Revolution from the right: against equality Udi Greenberg
- 10. Western Marxism: revolutions in theory Max Pensky
- 11. Anti-imperialism and interregnum Kris Manjapra
- 12. Late modern feminist subversions: sex, subjectivity, and embodiment Sandrine Sanos
- 13. Modernist theologies: the many paths between God and world Peter E. Gordon
- 14. Modern economic thought and the 'good society' Hagen Schulz-Forberg
- 15. Conservatism and its discontents Steven B. Smith
- 16. Modernity and the specter of totalitarianism Samuel Moyn
- 17. Decolonization terminable and interminable Judith Surkis
- 18. Structuralism and the return of the symbolic Camille Robcis
- 19. Poststructuralism: from deconstruction to the genealogy of power Julian Bourg and Ethan Kleinberg
- 20. Contesting the public sphere: within and against critical theory David Ingram
- 21. Restructuring democracy and the idea of Europe Seyla Benhabib and Stefan Eich.
